Local produce is displayed at store in Much Wenlock, Shropshire.
A long day of car travel as we drive from Chester to Bath. We leave Chester admist some nice sunshine, but it makes driving a bit of a strain on the eyes as we are driving into the low winter sun (heading southerly).
We drive the "backroads" and make a short stop in Much Wenlock, an old market town in Shropshire that was one of Jamie's favorite villages when we lived here previously. Chelsea found a used book store on the high street and I wander around taking some photos of the old buildings and guild hall. When I go back to fetch Chelsea, we have a nice conversation with the book store owner and a gentleman customer about the recent political developments in the US. Everyone wants to know what we think of the new president and some are comparing him to JFK already!
We drove the motorways down to Bath and encountered another traffic nightmare trying to navigate into Bath. There was a detour heading into the city center that completely threw us off, but we finally managed to find the bus station and a parking structure. We parked the car and set off to explore the city center and then toured the Roman Baths. We were part of the last group allowed in and it turned to our advantage. We hooked up with a tour guide and he filled us in a lot of the historical facts. It is amazing to be walking on stones and floors that people put in place nearly 2,000 years ago. It is almost amazing that the current structures, all erected during the Victorian ages are being supported by the original foundations that the Romans put in place!
After the tour we set off to find our hostel. This time we at least had a decent city map and Chelsea navigated us to the hostel. What a site! The hostel is a villa overlooking Bath (on Bathwick Hill) built in the mid 1800s to resemble an Italian villa. It served as a hospital in WW II and has been a hostel since the 1960's.
We decided to chance navigating back to the city centre for dinner and then I did a bit of photography on the plaza near the Abby (church).
Rather than hurry out of Bath tomorrow we decided to not travel to south Wales so we would have time explore a bit more of Bath in the morning.
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